Age of Conan

My question / concern is are the Assassins a carbon copy of every other rogue/ thief / assassin class in every RPG and MMORPG to date?

Meaning at whatever level you are does the battle you enter always go like this:

*Cloak*

*Sneak within melee range of enemy*

*Attack out of cloak for obscene bakcstab damage multiplier *

*Finish off enemy with various attacks, combos, or abilities*

Re cloak, find the next enemy rinse and repeat 500 times.

As far as you can see is that all there is to Assassin?   If not what how do your battles go besides that as an AoC assassin?

Well there has to be an easy mode class, no? People who want a challange don't whine as much as people who want easy mode. :p

Assasins 2/3 shot my necro at this moment :(

You failed to answer the question of is that all there is to Assassin or are there more routes of attack at his disposal?

I'm sorry, thought you were making a statement.

I couldn't answer to your question. But I think that's the way an assasin work in AoC, haven't seen any assasin do it diffirently.

Originally posted by Asiak

Its different. The stealth is not a concrete skill. You never know who sees you and who not. Its depending on gear and daylight/shadow as well. I dont PvP but i could imagine that a player with low perception has a problem with burts damage.. dunno.. In PvE you cant trust your stealth to 100%. There is always some risc in it. You have to deal with adds many times in AoC. Key is much more positioning of mobs and combos. Asssassins in AoC are also ranged fighters. They can use crossbows. I think  he no carbon copy...

rogue does what rogues does.. dish out some sneak attacks combos and such. warriors tank and dishout some dps. healers heal, mages burn stuff.. same as every other mmo out there.. you pretty much answered your own question..

Fuck that in no way helps me decide what class to play because now assassin sounds like its full of fail.  I played WoW for one month and got up to about level 15ish on my rogue and it made me realize that I love the ability to me stealth but I got so tired of the repetitive cloak back stab do it  all over again combat.

And I could go barbarian but thats probably the fotm right now, and I could go ranger but primarily shooting arrows sounds like it would get boring after ahwile to, and ranger also sounds like the fotm.

You have to also consider the HUGE benefits assassins will be in siege and battleground PVP. Off the top of my head i can think of a few Scouting will be the main asset knowing where enemy's are on the Playing field and  where they appear to be focusing to attack. Infiltrating enemy forts causing problems forcing troops to return home and protect the home front. Focused fire with 2-3 assassins teaming up and making sure certain classes are eliminated IE: healers, crusaders, nasty casters the melee classes cant reach. Now I've yet to reach a high enuf level on my assassin to back any of this but I'm level 49 and I'm starting to see how minuscule the open world combat is compared to the siege/battleground PvP.

Assassins attack very carefully lol